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While the national job count fell again in April, the San Antonio area labor market grew at a steady pace, fueled by 1,000-plus hiring in the hospitality and business services sectors.

That was part of what the Texas Workforce Commission reported in its April employment report. State jobs experts were impressed by Texas’ payroll numbers, which includes a 2.5-percent growth rate from April to April and a 4.1 percent unemployment rate that matched a record low.

The San Antonio-area annual growth rate was 2.3 percent, with solid contributions from construction, schools, hospitals and government services. And the area unemployment rate fell again to 3.6 percent, a rate that will be difficult to maintain.

The numbers should help strengthen the case made by Forbes.com that San Antonio is one of the nation’s most recession-proof cities.